Halloween! Garlands & Coasters using Sew Scary Fabric Line by J. Wecker Frisch & Dyed Bottle Brush Trees

Anytime J. Wecker Frisch has a new fabric line, I purchase it.  I love it all, but I especially love her new Sew Scary fabric line created for Quilting Treasures Fabrics.  Checkout her blog, Joy Studio.

I will have lots of Halloween items at A Paris Street Market this Saturday, September 5th.  Among them will be these Garlands/Buntings created using the Sew Scary fabric line (black fabric on the back).  I have fabric to create more, but those will be available at October's A Paris Street Market.  Here is what will be available this month, September 5th.

 

Here is a sampling of the 4 inch square coasters I created using Sew Scary fabric line. Love the vintage graphics!  They will come in sets of 4 coasters.  The fabric used for these coasters will be garlands for the October A Paris Street Market.  At least that my plan!

 

During the  Christmas Holiday shows, one of my best sellers are my bleached and hand-dyed bottle brush trees.  Dyed Halloween bottle brush trees  have been on my to do list since last year but ran out of time.  This year, I made time!  I hand- dyed a huge assortment of Halloween and Fall Bottle Brush Trees.  Here is a sampling:

Candy Corn! My favorite...

And, I also created more drink coasters using another line of Halloween Fabric, Riley Blake Happy Haunting Hexagon.  Here is a sampling:

Embroidered Baby Animals Embroidered Squares Repurposed in Baby Buntings/Garlands

When I found a stack of embroidered squares, along with portions of these squares in what appeared to be the start of putting a quilt together, I immediately knew I had to purchase them.  Until now, I have created many type of Garlands/Buntings but these (along with the bear garlands/bunting from yesterday's post) are the first garlands I have created perfect for a little babies room.

I chose fabrics for the back of each bunting that had that old vintage look.  The rick rack is all vintage, from numerous estate sales.  I love using all those vintage finds into new re-purposed items.  Keeping with the baby theme, I used fabric and color rick rack to complement a nursery for a baby girl, baby boy or both.

All those wonderfully embroidered baby animals squares allowed me to create 5 Garlands/Buntings.  They will all be available this Saturday, September 5th at A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove, Littleton, CO.
 

Repurposed Vintage Linens into Garlands or Buntings

I love working with imperfect vintage materials.  Sometimes, the item has stains or tears which require the item to be transformed into something else in order to give it new life.  All of these new one of a kind garlands will be available at A Paris Street Market in Aspen Grove this Saturday, September 5th.

This is the result:

Or, sometimes a quilt is incomplete.  The embroidery is complete, but the quilt itself is not.


In this case, 4 sweet garlands or buntings were created.  This is a very busy bear as he does lots of things throughout his day.  These would be perfect for a baby or young child's room.

Re-purposed Vintage Linen Pillows

Zippers was not a favorite thing of mine, but in recent years I have learned to not fear them.  Thanks to various tutorials on Pinterest, I am much more comfortable working with zippers.  As a result of that, when I make pillows, they now have a zipper at the bottom.  This allows you to wash the pillow by simply removing the pillow form.

When I find vintage linens at estate sales, I like to see the possibilities with the items I purchase. Sometimes I am lucky to find some real unique and special finds.  Recently, I found two.  These were embroidered panels, very different but both stunning (in my opinion).  I knew immediately, these would become pillows.  These are large pillows.

The first one is a large vintage red-work embroidered  panel now a pillow with a zipper at the bottom.  Red fabric backing.

 The next one is a dimensional floral design on felted wool.  The flowers are all hand-cut felted wool flowers with lots of embroidered details.  Here is the pillow with a zipper at the bottom. Its a long rectangular shape.

Old Vintage linen calendars usually have very pretty illustrations.  These usually are destined to become pillows.  The upcoming fall and winter season inspired my selection in my vast vintage linen stash to create these old linen calendars into pillows.  Sizes vary.

Vintage Hankie Scarves Part 2 of 2 and CreativeGIRL class with Danielle Donaldson

I had planned on posting these vintage scarves weeks ago but as usual, there is always more to do than there are hours in a day.

Since my last blog posting, kids are back to school.  Alex is now in 6th grade, his last year at our neighborhood elementary school.  Next school year, he will be in middle school.

My daughter Laura is the one experiencing a major change in her life, and us along with her.  She is now living in a dorm at Colorado State University (CSU) in Ft. Collins.  Moving day was a family event.  We helped her get her dorm room furniture setup and she has since settled in.  We Skype regularly!  I love being able to see her when we chat.  Love watching her expressions and see her when she laughs.  She is happy!  We miss her and it's a huge adjustment for us but we are happy she is happy!

I also attended a class with Danielle Donaldson hosted by Jeanne Oliver at Old Glory Antiques.  It was the Creative Girl in Denver class.  We created a cover girl in watercolors.  I have loved to paint for more than 25 years but this was my first time painting in watercolors.  My challenge was in figuring out how much water I needed to have on my brush.  I think I was afraid of having too much water on my brush but learned I needed to load the brush with water and watch the magic happen.  I had a great day!   I learned so much!  I am going to make time to continue to play with watercolors.  Love Danielle Donaldson's new book, CreativeGIRL, Mix Media Techniques for an Artful Life.  You can find it on Amazon.com here.  Here is the picture of my girl, inspired by my daughter Laura.

I have been busy working on many new items, including re-purposed linen pillows and started work on an assortment of Halloween items.  A Paris Street Market is in only 1 week!  September 5th.  Next week will be busy making the final preparations for A Paris Street Market plus my dear friend, who is like a sister to me, June will be visiting from San Antonio, Texas.  She will be helping me at A Paris Street Market.  So looking forward to June's visit.

As promised, here all the rest of the vintage hankies:

Vintage Hankie Scarves Part 1 of 2

Working with vintage hankies has become a favorite of mine.  I love the colors, the florals, the fine embroidered lace edgings, the textures. 

Combining 5 vintage hankies that coordinate or complement each other takes time as

 I decide on the 5 vintage hankies that will be re-purposed into a

 one of a kind 

Vintage Hankie Scarf.

I have been posting one or several of these a day on my Instagram account - IsaCreationsVintage.

Here is my new collection of Vintage Hankie Scarves

Available September 5th at

A Paris Street Market 

in Aspen Grove

Littleton, CO

White vintage hankies with embroidery and lace details make a wonderfully unique scarf.

I have decided to keep this one for myself!

My friend Amy (Pink Attic Cat) loves eyelet embroidered details.  I needed to create a new display board for my vintage hankie scarves.  I traded this scarf for a vintage door used in my new display.  Love to barter with Amy, her shop always has vintage finds I must have.

And there is more vintage hankie scarfs,

I will post those next time.